Jazz
Subtitle: the golden era
By: Richard Havers & Richard Evans
Contributors: Evans, Richard
Publisher: Compendium
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781906347857
Subjects: Jazz; Jazz musicians; History and criticism
Notes: Includes CD with twenty classic jazz tracks.

Includes bibliographical references (page 190) and index.
Table of contents: title: Book. William Gottlieb; title: Jazz; title: A jazz timeline; title: Louis Armstrong; title: Mary Lou Williams; title: Duke Ellington; title: Coleman Hawkins; title: Count Basie; title: Tommy Dorsey & Frank Sinatra; title: Gene Krupa; title: Stan Kenton; title: Charlie Barnet; title: Billlie Holiday; title: Ella Fitzgerald; title: Thelonious Monk; title: Nat King Cole; title: Buddy Rich; title: Dizzy Gillespie; title: Erroll Garner; title: Charlie Parker; title: Illinois Jacquet; title: Art Pepper; title: Miles Davis. Compact disc. West End blues / King Joe Oliver, Clarence Williams (Louis Armstrong) (1928); title: Twinklin' / Mary Lou Williams (Mary Lou Williams with Andy Kirk & His Clouds of Joy) (1938); title: Take the 'A' train / Billy Strayhorn (Duke Ellington) (1941); title: Body and soul / John Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour / (Coleman Hawkins) (1940); title: One o'clock jump / Count Basie, Harry James / (Count Basie) (1937); title: I'll be seeing you / Irving Kahal, Sammy Fain (Frank Sinatra with Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra) (1940); title: Let me off uptown / Evans Redd, Earl Bostic (Gene Krupa) (1941); title: Artistry in rhythm / Stanley Kenton (1944); title: Skyliner / Charlie Barnet (1945); title: Lover man / Jimmy Davis, Roger Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman / (Billie Holliday) (1945); title: It's only a paper moon / Harold Arden, W.Y. Harburg, Billly Rose / (Ella Fitzgerald & the Delta Rhythm Boys), 1945; title: Straight no chaser / Thelonious Monk, (1951); title: Route 66 / Bobby Troup / (Nat King Cole), (1946); title: Rich-ual fire dance / Buddy Rich (1946); title: Salt peanuts / Kenneth Clarke, John Gillespie / (Dizzy Gillespie) (1945); title: Misty / Erroll Garner, Johnny Burke (Erroll Garner) (1954); title: Cool blues / Charlie Parker (1947); title: Flyin' home / Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton (Lionel Hampton Orchestra featuring Illinois Jacquet) (1942); title: You'd be so nice to come home to / Cole Porter (Art Pepper) (1957); title: Little Willie leaps / Miles Davis (1947).